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Gavin Ferguson

01481 752307 gavin.ferguson@ogier.com View profile

Work Department

Private Wealth

Position

Gavin provides contentious and non-contentious fiduciary services to high net worth individuals, corporate clients and charities, and is qualified in Guernsey, BVI and England and Wales.

Career

Gavin is a partner in Ogier’s Private Wealth team, and provides contentious and non-contentious fiduciary services to high net worth individuals, corporate clients and charities. He advises on all aspects of trust and foundation law, including in respect of their creation, reorganisation and administration.

He also advises on regulatory matters, general private client matters (including probate) and has an interest in Sharia compliant fiduciary structures.

Gavin is a qualified Guernsey Advocate, BVI solicitor and English solicitor, and holds a personal fiduciary license which permits him to act as a director, protector, enforcer, guardian and council member.

He was praised for his “very high degree of expertise” in trust and private wealth work, and described as “one of the island’s top trust lawyers” in client feedback cited in the Chambers and Partners UK Guide 2019. Client feedback quotes by Legal 500 described him as “astute, affable, technically knowledgeable and efficient”.

Gavin is a STEP member and a contributing author to the STEP Certificate in Foundations. He is a council member of the International Wealth Advisers Forum 2.0, a Chartered Member of the CISI,  and a member of the International Tax Planning Association.”

Gavin is a founding member and the current Guardian of local male cancer charity, MUG.

Memberships

STEP
International Wealth Advisers Forum
CSI Chartered Member
International Tax Planning Association

Education

Admitted in:

Notary Public (Guernsey) – 2017

BVI – 2014

Guernsey – 2007

England & Wales – 2003